Taste local wines from nine Brandywine Valley wineries. Enjoy an array of foods, from BBQ and local artisan cheeses to ice cream and chocolates. Watch a cooking demonstration. Shop for unique local crafts. Enjoy live music from two bands.Bonais Doll Fern Photography

Call it a twist on the Paul Revere-style of marketing.

Borderland Vineyard, a Chester County winery in business for more than two years now, doesn't have a permanent building yet to hold tastings. So locals know when the OPEN flag is hanging, there is wine available to taste. A number have taken advantage. It's not quite one if by land, two if by sea, but it's close enough.

"I think one of the things really works in our favor is just how beautiful the farm is," co-owner Karen Anderson said by phone Thursday. "It's really a gorgeous piece of property. It overlooks the preserve, so when you're sitting overlooking the vineyard, beyond that there's nothing but woods for miles and miles, acres and acres. And so the people that kind of find our wines and our location appealing are people who want to sip some wine, sit in Adirondack chair, bring in their own picnic, that kind of stuff. And I think the people who are going to find both our wine and location appealing are sort of finding us, which is nice."

Borderland, with a mail address of Landenberg, will be one of nine wines participating in Saturday's Brandywine Food & Wine Festival. It will last from noon to 6 p.m. at the Myrick Conservation Center, 1760 Unionville-Wawaset Road, West Chester, Pa.

Two years ago the winery had no more than a spot in the Brandywine Valley Wine Trail and a couple wines to pour at the festival. By now, it has added a couple more, largely using the fruit of supplier Wilson Vineyard in Nottingham, near Oxford. Anderson said what they have taken out of their vineyard last is aging in oak and some months away from being bottled and sold.

The business is located on a farm purchased by Anderson's parents in 1946. Karen said she and her older brother, Kurt, saw the winery as a way to continue the farm and keep it in the family. She said the wine is available at trail events, on the farm when she has the flag out, and in the Market at Liberty Place in Kennett Square, where neighbor Paradocx Vineyard also sells its product. She said that she'll also make time for groups of six or more who call and want a tasting at the winery.

All in all, they have managed to make it through the first two years without a permanent structure, and that alone is gratifying. In retrospect, she said, maybe she was a little naive in how much she hoped to grow the first couple years. Still, she is 66 and her brother is 69. "When you put eight years into something, you don't suddenly abandon it because you think you've got lots of time to try something else," she said. "Both of us are in the mind that this thing is planted well enough, rooted well enough it will get where it needs to go. . . it's a good thing, I think, that we can just kinda gut it out and see where things are going to go."

They will go better, she said, if they can establish "a predictable regular place that will capitalize on the beauty of the site and lets people know we're going to be there and come when they feel like it." And that could come fairly soon, she added.

'My brother and I really starting to think creatively around the pieces of buildings that are left on the property and just the ways that we could have a regular place where people could come regardless of the weather. We think when we solve that problem, we think that's going to be the game-changer, really."